In my dealings with gfx cards, i've owned a 8800gt 256 and a 3850 256mb. The 8800gt can play cod4 at almost maxed settings 1440x900 with 60fps ish. the 3850 wouldn't come close to that on stock clocks, but the thing is it oc'd like a beast for me. So moral of the story is, if you wanna OC then you could save a bit of money.

Otherwise, I would go with the 9600gt hands down.

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actually from the benchmark results I posted before (post 10). the 9600GT and 3850 handle the 8800GT 256MB quite well. In Elder scrolls the 8800GT pulls ahead without AA&AF, but when the AA&AF are turned on the 256MB chokes and dies, while the 3850 is still standing.

I've pretty much ruled out the 8800GT 256MB, only way I'd go with it was if I was going SLI as then it takes care of the bottleneck.

8800GS seems to be a bit better than the 3850, however I'm heavily leaning towards the 9600GT.

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